🆚 Elasticsearch vs. Solr

📈 Solr is slightly more popular than Elasticsearch.
🌎 Solr is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
🌍 Elasticsearch is more popular in France, the Netherlands, and Taiwan.

Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data

Elasticsearch

Solr

Type

Site search software

About

Elasticsearch is an open-source, distributed, JSON-based search and analytics engine, scalable data store, and vector database built on Apache Lucene.

Solr is an open-source enterprise search server built on the Apache Lucene information retrieval library that provides full-text, faceted, and geospatial search over HTTP APIs.

It supports advanced query parsers and hit highlighting, schema-based and schemaless indexing, distributed indexing and fault-tolerant search with SolrCloud, and parsing of rich documents such as PDFs, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, HTML, and OpenDocument formats.

Headquarters

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Wilmington, Delaware, United States

Website

elastic.co #24,958

solr.apache.org

Pricing

Free version ✔️Self-managed, open source

Elastic Cloud HostedStandard$99+/month
Gold$114+/month
Platinum$131+/month
Enterprise$184+/month

Free ✔️Open source

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Solr site search software is 1.1 times more popular than Elasticsearch.

Total websites

Market share

Site Search

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Solr is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, while Elasticsearch is more popular in France, the Netherlands, and Taiwan.

United States

Germany

France

United Kingdom

Australia

Netherlands

Taiwan

Canada

Switzerland

Norway

Awards

🥇 Most popular in Norway in the Site Search category.
🥈 Second most popular in Taiwan in the Site Search category.
🥈 Second most popular in Turkey in the Site Search category.
🥈 Second most popular in Sweden in the Site Search category.
🥈 Second most popular in Hong Kong in the Site Search category.

🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Site Search category.
🥇 Most popular in the United Arab Emirates in the Site Search category.
🥇 Most popular in Austria in the Site Search category.
🥇 Most popular in Portugal in the Site Search category.
🥈 Second most popular in Australia in the Site Search category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Solr is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and education and reference, while Elasticsearch is more commonly used on online shopping, general news, and entertainment sites.

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Online Shopping

Education/Reference

Health

General News

Entertainment

Finance/Banking

Blogs/Wiki

Travel

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#19

#66

#101

#117

#140

Name

Rank

#15

#101

#267

#282

#468